economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.7%. and that's better than the original 2% even that was reported a couple of weeks ago and last week, there were 393,000 new claims for jobless benefits and down from the previous week, but you're still very close to the 400,000 per week mark and that's a sign of weakness, albeit, come of that clearly from the storm, that's still not a healthy vigorous rebound, is it? trading has begun this thursday morning. we're expecting the dow to go up 50, 60 points and that's in part because of the fiscal cliff debate and looks like the president won taxes now, promises of entitlement reform later and don't care about the debt. the market kind of likes that, because the money keeps flowing. in the first part of business, we're flat, i thought more than that, we're up 2, 10 points and going up from here, at least in the early going. now, we've got another big name that you know #, trying to help shareholders avoid higher taxes next year, it's disney and increased the cash dividend by 25% and paying